Attorney Who Aided Terri Schiavo’s Husband Now Advising Barack Obama

Life News ^ | 12/7/08 | Steven Ertelt

[wagglebee]

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- An attorney who won an award for representing Terri Schiavo’s husband Michael in his efforts to kill his disabled wife is now an advisor to the transition team of incoming president Barack Obama.

Thomas Perrelli, who raised over $500,000 for the pro-abortion presidential candidate and is the managing partner of a Washington law firm, Jenner & Block LLP, is helping advise Obama on putting together a Justice Department team.

However, Perrelli provided Michael Schiavo with legal advice during his response to the Congressional bill that President Bush signed allowing the Schindler fail to take their lawsuit seeking to prevent Terri’s euthanasia death from state to federal courts.

Perrelli led the Jenner & Block team that developed the legal briefs opposing appeals for Michael and he ultimately received the Albert E. Jenner, Jr. Pro Bono Award in October 2006 for representing Terri’s former husband at no cost.

On Michael’s legal team, Perrelli worked with infamous pro-euthanasia attorney George Felos as well as lawyers from the Florida chapter of the ACLU.

Obama’s selection of Perrelli to participate on his Justice Department transition team is no surprise given his comments on Terri’s painful 13-day starvation and dehydration death during the presidential campaign.

During his debate with Hillary Clinton in the Democratic presidential primary, Obama said his biggest mistake was voting with a unanimous Senate to help save Terri.

In March 2005, just weeks before Terri died, Congress approved legislation allowing her family to take its case from state courts to federal courts in an effort to stop the euthanasia from proceeding.

Terri was not on any artificial breathing apparatus and only required a feeding tube to eat and drink. Her family had filed a lawsuit against her former husband to allow them to care for her and give her proper medical and rehabilitative care.

The Senate unanimously approved a compromise bill, which the House eventually supported on a lopsided bipartisan vote and President Bush signed, to help the disabled woman.

Obama said he should have stood up against the life-saving legislation.

“It wasn't something I was comfortable with, but it was not something that I stood on the floor and stopped,” Obama said.

“And I think that was a mistake, and I think the American people understood that that was a mistake. And as a constitutional law professor, I knew better,” he added.

That wasn't the first time Obama said he regretted supporting the bill to protect the disabled woman.

During an April 2007 debate, Obama said, "I think professionally the biggest mistake that I made was when I first arrived in the Senate. There was a debate about Terri Schiavo, and a lot of us, including me, left the Senate with a bill that allowed Congress to intrude where it shouldn't have.”

"And I think I should have stayed in the Senate and fought more for making sure [Terri's parents couldn't take their case to federal court to save her life]," he explained.

Since Terri’s death, the Schindler family has established a foundation to help disabled and elderly patients obtain proper medical care and legal and other assistance when they are denied it.

Related web sites:
Terri Schindler Schiavo Foundation - http://www.terrisfight.org

[wagglebee]

Dr. Alveda King is making it clear what she thinks of Obama and his agenda.

Thread by me.

Second Black Pro-Life Leader Urges Barack Obama to Oppose Abortion (Dr. Alveda King)

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- A second black pro-life leader has issued comments urging incoming president Barack Obama to reverse course on abortion and oppose instead of promoting it. Alveda King, the niece of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is leading a group of African Americans with a pro-life message for Obama.

Her comments come on the heels of Day Gardner asking Obama to oppose abortion as president.

King and a group of community leaders are gathering in Atlanta today to discuss an agenda to be presented to Obama regarding his first 100 days in office.

They say they appreciate that Obama is the first black president to serve in the White House and say that is a milestone for America. However, they believe that achievement will be undone if Obama promotes abortion as he has said he would do.

"African Americans, like many Americans are pro-life," King told LifeNews.com in a Tuesday statement...

[Dante3]

Sad and brutal.

[little jeremiah]

BTTT.

This thread is a good idea - lots of news in one spot!

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[wagglebee]

Father Neuhaus has fallen gravely ill and will soon be with our Lord in Paradise.

Please remember him and his loved ones in your prayers.

Pyro7480 has a thread.

Thank you and God Bless

On Fr. Neuhaus (Received Last Rites)

His friends and family are keeping vigil and he was administered last rites shortly after midnight. Fr. George Rutler, who gave him the Catholic Sacrament, says that “he is not expected to live long” and suggests “that it is appropriate that prayers be offered for a holy death.”

Fr. Neuhaus has come close to this moment before and been back. If it’s his time: Go in peace. He's a man who has loved and served His Lord. When he leaves this world, his vast intellectual and spiritual body of work will have a long life here....

[wagglebee]

Bobby Schindler has responded to the news that one of Terri's executioners will have such a prominent role at the Justice Department.

Thread by me.

Terri Schiavo's Brother Upset by Barack Obama Justice Department Selection

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- The brother of Terri Schiavo, the woman whose former husband subjected her to a painful starvation and dehydration death, is upset that Barack Obama has chosen a top Justice Department lawyer who was the attorney for the man who condemned her to death.

Obama has named Thomas Perrelli, who won an award for representing Schiavo's former husband Michael, as the third highest attorney in the Justice Department.

Perrelli will be an associate attorney general, but the news isn't something Bobby Schindler likes.

Schindler, Terri's brother and one of Terri's family members who fought to be given the right to provide her appropriate medical care and rehabilitative treatment, told LifeNews.com the appointment shows how Obama has little regard for the value of human life.

“Sadly, the appointment of Attorney Thomas Perrelli as an associate attorney general is what many of us have feared in regards to an Barack Obama presidency," Schindler said.

"Not only does it appear that President-elect Obama has no regard for the value and dignity of human life, but it also appears the same holds true for those he is appointing to be part of his administration," he added.

"We will not be silent. We are your bad conscience. The White Rose will give you no rest."

[wagglebee]

If they are just removing "clumps of cells" why do they need to plan their death chambers in secret>

Thread by GonzoII

‘Secret’ University of Wisconsin plans for mid-term abortion clinic revealed

Madison, WI, Jan 7, 2009 / 03:55 am (CNA).- Newly publicized plans for the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics to perform second-trimester abortions in a jointly-operated clinic have attracted protest from employees of the clinic and the Alliance Defense Fund. The pro-life group claims the “secret and potentially illegal plans” would likely compel pro-life medical professionals to cooperate in unethical acts and could provide fetal remains for medical research...

[wagglebee]

I'm usually tempted to call them baby killers, but this is an excellent piece on how to talk to the promoters of death.

Thread by GonzoII.

Eight Responses to the Pro-Choice Mindset

I once said that I'd die to keep abortion legal and easily accessible, and I meant it. I was vehemently pro-choice, as were most of the women in my social circles. We believed abortion was a critical right for women and could not imagine how anyone could be pro-life. We were products of a culture in which human sexuality had been severed from its inherent connection to the creation of human life. Our generation had been taught in our public school sex-ed classes not that sex creates babies, but that unprotected sex creates babies. We were assured that the creation of new human life was tangential to sexual activity, something that was not only optional but completely controllable. In fact, babies were considered downright antithetical to sex...

[wagglebee]

I guess they figured that their murdered "customers" wouldn't complain.

Thread by me.

Dignitas under investigation for 'profiteering' from assisted suicide patients

Dignitas, which is meant to be a non-profit organisation, is being forced to open its accounts to prosecutors in Switzerland and disclose how much money it is receiving from its controversial business of assisting suicide.

The founder of the group is reported to have become a millionaire by helping at least 870 terminally ill people – an estimated 100 of whom were British – die. It is said to have taken as much as £61,000 from one woman, 10 times its usual fee...

[wagglebee]

Baroness Warlock strikes again, this woman is truly evil.

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Doctors Who Refuse Assisted Suicide “Genuinely Wicked” says UK Bioethics “Philosopher Queen”

LONDON, January 7, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Speaking to a group in Belfast last night, Mary Baroness Warnock, a leading voice in British bioethics, said that doctors who refuse to cooperate in assisted suicide are “genuinely wicked.”

Following a theme of previous comments in which she said that the elderly and people with dementia have a “duty to die,” Warnock said, “There are doctors, we know, who don't pay any attention [to a patient’s desire for suicide].

“But that seems to me a genuinely wicked thing to do – to disregard what somebody had quite explicitly said, that he wants to die – not to be resuscitated in certain circumstances and in certain circumstances to be helped to commit suicide.

“I believe that if someone is diagnosed as having the beginnings of Alzheimer's or dementia, at that stage it is a positive duty that doctors should talk to them about what will happen when the moment comes where they reach steep decline.”

Warnock, as Britain’s leading voice for the most extreme position of utilitarian bioethics, has pressed for the legalisation of euthanasia and assisted suicide and for the use of embryonic human beings for experimental research. In November last year, she said that there is an “absolute moral obligation” to conduct embryonic stem cell research, and that a scientist who chose not to conduct it would be “failing in their moral duty.”

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[wagglebee]

Obama would have wanted the doctors to let this girl die.

Thread by NYer.

Survival of premature baby of 23 weeks calls UK abortion laws into question

Lexie Slater (Photo: Cavendish Press)

London, Jan 7, 2009 / 06:25 am (CNA).- A premature baby born in Britain 23 weeks into pregnancy has been allowed to return home six months after her birth, prompting her parents to question the British laws which permit unborn children like her to be aborted.

Lexie Slater-Folksman weighed only 1 lb, 8 oz. at delivery. She was put on life support, her parents being warned that she might not survive, the Daily Mail reports.

Her eyes not having developed fully, Lexie required laser surgery when she was just one month-old. She also suffered collapsed lungs and spent weeks on ventilator equipment.

Lexie’s parents, the 20-year-old Sarah Slater and her 25-year-old fiancé Richard Folksman, said their daughter’s case proves that abortion laws are outdated and should be changed...

[Dionysius]

Fight Them to the Last Breath ping.

[Dionysius]

I loved the doggerel, but all I got was a little red “X” telling me that I was “F”ed.

[wagglebee]

Amen!

[Dante3]

BUMP

[Dante3]

She reminds me of a sociopath. She has no sense of ethics, and is like a character from “Brave New World”/”1984” by the way she defines good as evil.

[wagglebee]

She reminds me of a sociopath.

Reminds? She personifies sociopathic evil.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[BykrBayb]

Haleigh Poutre is a big inspiration to me. Life Site News has a new article out about her. Abuser of Near-Euthanasia Victim Haleigh Poutre Jailed as She Recovers ~ http://www.lifenews.com/bio2688.html .

There’s a link in that article to a video of Haleigh, showing some of the tremendous progress she’s earned. Here are links to two versions of that video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGHypHv7HBw&feature=channel_page , and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6lxic6aMSk&feature=channel_page .

What an amazing child! She must work very hard to accomplish so much recovery. She’s one of my biggest role models.

I don’t know who else to ping. Wagglebee, would you use the ping list to get some exposure of these videos of Haleigh? I think everyone should see what a great job Haleigh’s doing. So much of what we’ve seen about her has been depressing, but these videos are so uplifting.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!